power dive

  • 1Power Dive — was an amusement ride at Six Flags Great America. It was an Intamin AG Looping Starship with the body slightly modified to look like a fighter jet. The ride was criticized by many for being A Cheap Top Gun Imitation since Paramount owned the… …

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  • 2power dive — n. Aeron. a dive speeded up by the use of engine power power dive vi., vt. power dived, power diving …

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  • 3power-dive — verb make a power dive The airplane power dived • Topics: ↑air travel, ↑aviation, ↑air • Hypernyms: ↑dive, ↑plunge, ↑plunk • …

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  • 4power dive — noun a steep dive of an aircraft with the engines providing thrust. verb (power dive) perform a power dive …

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  • 5power-dive — /ˈpaʊə daɪv/ (say powuh duyv) Aeronautics –noun 1. a steep dive by an aircraft with engines at full power. –verb (i) (power dived, power diving) 2. to perform a power dive …

  • 6power-dive — Date: 1937 intransitive verb to make a power dive transitive verb to cause to power dive …

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  • 7power-dive — /pow euhr duyv /, v.t., v.i., power dived or power dove, power dived, power diving. Aeron. to cause to perform or to perform a power dive. [1935 40] * * * …

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  • 8power dive — noun a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine • Hypernyms: ↑dive, ↑nose dive, ↑nosedive …

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  • 9power dive — Aeron. a dive, esp. a steep dive, by an aircraft in which the engine or engines are delivering thrust at or near full power. [1925 30] * * * …

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  • 10power dive — noun Date: 1930 a dive of an airplane accelerated by the power of the engine …

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